Quotes about Contentment
For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
— CS Lewis
Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.
— AW Tozer
Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort.
— AW Tozer
Spiritual influence never coincided with material affluence.
— FF Bruce
To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity - there is the challenge.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Without Goodness one cannot enjoy enduring happiness
— Confucius
Complacency is easy...and it is a deadly foe of spiritual growth.
— AW Tozer
Everything I need now is here
— Wayne Dyer
From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.
— Mark Twain
I acknowledge with great gratitude the peace and contentment we can find for ourselves in the spiritual cocoons of our homes, our sacrament meetings, and our holy temples.
— James Faust
On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.
— Mother Teresa